Author and CBS correspondent Jeff Pegues says President Obama didn’t do more publicly to condemn Russia’s actions during the 2016 presidential race because he didn’t want to appear political in his response.

Right.

“Do you think it was largely a political calculation for the Obama administration to do less?” Hill.TV co-host Buck Sexton asked Pegues on “Rising.”

“I think in hindsight it was,” Pegues responded. “There were concerns at that time that the Obama administration would appear to be putting the thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton at a time when candidate Trump was saying that the election was rigged.”

These people seriously only see what they want to see.

Every decision he made was based on politics Not taking action was infact a political move

Actually it was because it contradicted everything he said about Russia when he ran against Romney. Remember during debates, @BarackObama laughed off Romney when Romney identified Putin’s Russia as a threat

This all boils down to the Democrats trying to cheat their way back into the White House and in the process, they made it possible for Russia to have even more leeway into our 2016 election. They can sit on the sidelines now and cry about how horrible this situation is, but without Obama doing the things he did we wouldn’t be where we are now.

Sure, what Trump did today was awful, but let’s not pretend this hasn’t been ongoing in politics for decades. Trump is just not as good at hiding it as others … like Obama.